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Switching identity in multicultural Canadian literature : codeswitching as a discursive strategy and a marker of identity construction

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Casagranda, M. Dolores
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	In this paper, I investigate how the discourse on multicultural and multilingual Canadian identity is represented and encoded in contemporary literary works. I focus in particular on the phenomenon of codeswitching as a negotiation of social and personal identity and as a discursive strategy. Ast er outlining the sociolinguistic approach taken from Gumperz, Poplack, Myers-Scotton, and Heller, according to which the functions of language are markers of the choices the speakers make to convey personal identity and to establish their social role, I consider some examples from Nino Ricci’s trilogy on the Italian immigrant experience in Canada (Lives of the Saints, 1990, In a Glass House, 1993, and Where She Has Gone, 1997), paying particular attention to the grammatical structures and the sociolinguistic functions of the switched parts of the texts, where codeswitching performs also as a narrative strategy adopted in order to introduce a discourse on Italian-Canadian identity and on Canadianness as the space of multiculturalism and multilingualism.
Starting Page	77
Ending Page	87
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	6
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/116087/2_CentralEuropeanJournalCanadian_6-2008-1_10.pdf?sequence=1
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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